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clear-left-designThis weeks Design Critique is Clear Left,  a aquatic and earthy color palette delivers the emotional response of calm and freshness, the design is a lesson in usability with clarity and readability at the forefront of the designers mind.  I like the clarity of the message, and simple information structure,  Let’s Discuss.

wordpress_logoWordPress Blogs has have some unwelcome security issues of late and they have responded with haste with this new release 2.8.5. According to the WordPress blog the headline changes are; A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen, removal of areas within the code where php code in Read More

Donald DeSantis teaches starting with a bare-bones WordPress theme design and building it into something more in this five minute presentation. enjoy.

Ian Lurie seems to take the same stance and outlook as I do when it comes to branding, usability, and SEO. He gives away some great SEO tips when reviewing the design of a handful of WordPress Blogs.

shopify-designShopify has released a new function that will allow you to design your shop to show a list of your collection items by order of best selling product, this is a Shopify feature I have been waiting for and one I have hacked together in numerous other ways for clients in the past.

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wordpress_logoJust read an interesting post highlighting a handful of  features that will be in WordPress Blog release 2.9, check Dougal Campbell here, there’s a shortlist of upcoming features; Post Thumbnails being shown in post listings, Image Editing like cropping & resizing in media library, and better Video Support ..

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